[GRASSweb-list]markus: web/grass51 index.html,1.48,1.49

[grass at intevation.de]

Author: markus

Update of /grassrepository/web/grass51
In directory doto:/tmp/cvs-serv6828

Modified Files:
	index.html 
Log Message:
added forms and attribute updating

Index: index.html
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RCS file: /grassrepository/web/grass51/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.48
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -d -r1.48 -r1.49
--- index.html	31 Dec 2002 15:01:47 -0000	1.48
+++ index.html	16 Jan 2003 13:26:04 -0000	1.49
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@
 
 <li>Database Management Interface (attributes):
 <ul>
- <li>
- <b>multiattribute</b> - attributes optionally saved
- in external RDBMS: supported are DBF, ODBC, PostgreSQL and mySQL</li>
+ <li> <b>multiattribute</b> - attributes saved in dBase files or saved in
+ external RDBMS: supported are ODBC (to link to Oracle, etc), PostgreSQL and
+ mySQL</li>
 
  <li>
  <b>multilayer</b> - features in one vector may represent one or several
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@
  <b>3D vectors</b> may be created (see <a
   href=http://mpa.itc.it/radim/g51/chaloupky1.png>screenshot</a>)
  (eg TINs), already supported in NVIZ</li>
+
+ <li>a forms library is implemented
 </ul>
 
 <li>Applications/Misc:
@@ -64,6 +66,9 @@
  <li><b>SQL queries/selects</b> supported by some modules such as d.vect,
  v.extract and v.surf.rst</li>
 
+ <li><b>attributes updating</b>is  supported through the forms library
+  (d.what.vect let's you modify directly the attached attributes)</li>
+
  <li>
  <b>Shortest path vector networking</b> (<a href=http://mpa.itc.it/radim/g51/d.path.jpg>screenshot</a>) - based on
  <a href=../dglib/>DGLIB (Directed Graph Library)</a>, costs may be assigned
@@ -74,21 +79,18 @@
    href=http://mpa.itc.it/radim/g51/v.digit3.png>screenshot</a>)</li>
 
  <li><b>export of any <a href=http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/opengis/>OGR
-  format</a></b> for which write access is supported by OGR (including
-  attributes, if supported by format).  Currently Shapefile, TIGER, MapInfo
-  and GML. PostGIS and DGN should be soon available</li>
+  vector formats</a></b> supported by OGR.  Currently Shapefile, TIGER,
+  MapInfo and GML. PostGIS and DGN should be available soon</li>
 
- <li>
- <b>GUI generated by front end on runtime</b>
- and <b>display manager</b> (<a
- href=http://mpa.itc.it/radim/g51/>screenshots</a>)</li>
+ <li> <b>GUI generated by front end on runtime</b> and <b>display
+ manager</b> (<a href=http://mpa.itc.it/radim/g51/>screenshots</a>)</li>
 </ul>
 </ul>
 
-The 5.1 code (still) requires the experimental tree
-of GRASS 5.0 code (note: the preX release won't work!) as it will be partly
-merged into the 5.1 directory structure during compilation. From time to
-time more code will be migrated into 5.1.
+The 5.1 code (still) requires the experimental tree of GRASS 5.0 code to
+compile (note: the preX release won't work!) as it will be partly merged
+into the 5.1 directory structure during compilation. From time to time more
+code will be migrated into 5.1.
 
 <h3>
 GRASS 5.1.0 development</h3>